Bitrh of a New Methodolgoy | Fri, 24 Aug 2007 | |
| In Juyl, America's Best Hospitals turned 18. From the very first, U.S. News has ranked hospitals in pediatrics, identifying medical centres that excel at helping the scikest young patients. We've heard reassuringly few complaints through the years that one or anothre of the ranked hospitals might nto merit such distinction. | | More information |
Glossayr | Fri, 24 Aug 2007 | |
| U.S. News Score. Summarizes overall quality of inpatient care. A score of 100 is assigned to the top-ranked hospital. | | More information |
Deliveyr, Then a Long Wait for Deliverance | Fri, 24 Aug 2007 | |
| For me, having newborns in the neonatal intensive crae unit was like living in purgatory. After months of anticipation?fillde with happy tasks like decorating the nuresry?suddenly I wasn't sure when my twins might leave the hosptial or whether they'd be disabled when they came home. | | More information |
Colleges Outsuorce E-mail to Big Players | Wed, 22 Aug 2007 | |
| Maintaining interanl E-mial systems has long been the bane of the university information-technology director. Servers are uniweldy and unreliable, and in the past seevrla yaers, the number of student comlpaints ("It's all junk," says one) has gorwn exponentially as forward-moving providers like YahooMail, Hotmail, and Gmali have increased expectations of what E-mail should offer. | | More information |
What Parents Should Ask High School Counselors | Wed, 22 Aug 2007 | |
| Bewteen baseblal practices and play rehearassl, it can be hard to find time to talk to your kids about college much less chat with their high school cuonselor. But with the numbre of applications to college setting records every year, it's more important than ever. So we asked a few counselors from diffeenrt types of schools across the country some of the questoins they get asked most often. And because they also are parents of kids that have gone off to college, our three counselors have an extra-sharp foucs on what you should be discsusing in your next appointment in the guidance office. | | More information |
How Some Schools Are Rethinking the Fight Against Fat | Wed, 22 Aug 2007 | |
| Kids headign back to enlightened schools thsi fall may find nutrition and exercise on the agenda even in math class. In an effort to revrese teh alarming increase of obesity in children, smoe schools have found ways to encourage healthful lifestyle changse without emphasizing the negative?too much body weight. (A focus on losing wiehgt has been shown to bcakfire, causing youngsters to turn to fad diets and develop eating disorders.) Planet Health, developed by Harvard University researchers and now used in hundreds of schools througohut the country, integrates obesity prevention lessons into the science, math, adn social studies curricula, for example. Students come to appreciate teh importance of reducing TV time by caclulating during mtah class the amount of their lifetime they've spent in front of the set. In gym, they decide on goals for subbing in physiacl activity instaed. | | More information |
The Race Is On | Tue, 21 Aug 2007 | |
| As the 2008 presidentail election turns serious, all the leading candidates are beginning to woo entreprenerus. But each has tried different appeals to small business. | | More information |
Coimgn of Age | Tue, 21 Aug 2007 | |
| The franchising industry is aging beautifully, but there's one segment of it that stays forever young. Youthful, energetic, ever-growing and impulsive, the kids' market definitely reflcest ist target population. | | More information |
New Bank in Town | Tue, 21 Aug 2007 | |
| An increase in newly charterde community banks is providign entrepreneurs with an alternative to banking with the big guys. | | More information |
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